Restaurant review: Garbanzo Healthy Kitchen in Ventura

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Diners at Garbanzo Healthy Kitchen in Ventura choose items as they walk down a cafeteria-style line. The restaurant offers a variety of Middle Eastern dishes.

Garbanzo Healthy Kitchen is located next to Fatburger in Ventura’s Montalvo Square.

For $7.25, diners at Garbanzo Healthy Kitchen in Ventura can choose an entree, a side and two salads. The plate pictured here includes the meatballs entree served on Israeli couscous, with sour pickle potato salad and eggplant salad.

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Schwarma — made with Black Angus beef — roasts on a spit at Garbanzo Healthy Kitchen in Ventura.

Garbanzo Healthy Kitchen in Ventura is an orderly, cafeteria-style place with lots of Middle Eastern options, all served up for customers as they select from a display of entrees, side dishes and salads.